Saturday, May 23, 2015

Cleveland Police Officer Acquitted of Manslaughter in 2012 Deaths

Roundabout via Jeffery

 

A Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car after a chase and fired repeatedly at its unarmed occupants in 2012 was acquitted of manslaughter on Saturday by an Ohio judge.

The trial of the officer, Michael Brelo, played out amid broader questions about how the police interact with African-Americans and the use force, in Cleveland and across the country.

Officer Brelo was one of several officers who shot at Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, during a chase through the Cleveland area on Nov. 29, 2012. The chase, which started in downtown Cleveland, began after reports of gunfire from the car; prosecutors said the noise may have been the car backfiring. 

After the gunfire reports, over 100 officers pursued the car for more than 20 miles at speeds that reached 100 miles an hour. Police officers fired 137 rounds at the car after it was cornered, prosecutors have said, including 49 by Officer Brelo.

More @ The New York Times

10 comments:

  1. I find it harder, and harder each day to give a S*IT about the health and safety of anyone in Law Enforcement. As a former Police Officer, and with friends still in Law Enforcement, that is an uncomfortable position to be in. I've spent many an hour talking with my friends still "serving" in the capacity or LEO. Surprisingly, a few agree with me that their are far to many LEO, who are unstable, if not completely deranged!
    Where we disagree, is the most practical way to end their terror spree.
    Not surprisingly they are the idea of throwing out "qualified immunity" for all officers (local, state, fed) is not popular with them.

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    1. the idea of throwing out "qualified immunity" for all officers (local, state, fed) is not popular with them.

      Being purely selfish, it wouldn't be popular with me if I was a cop, but that being said, it should be done.

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    2. "it should be done".... post haste!
      (my text should have said "Not surprisingly they are against the idea of throwing out "qualified immunity") my bad! :-(

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    3. I read it like that anyway. :) Thanks.

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  2. Nothing much going on in Cleveland at the present, just some "no justice, no peace"
    sermons. Give it time for Soro's to dish out the money, blood money.
    Weren't there those during the Civil War who worked both sides, like WWII.
    This is what Soro's reminds me of. No character.

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    1. Give it time for Soro's to dish out the money, blood money.

      Really and yes X2. :)

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    2. As luck would have it, the violence level ticked up noticeably the later it got yesterday. Probably something to do with how quickly the imported agitators could book flights into the current Zone of Hostility.

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    3. Ha! :) you'd think with all of Soros' money he would have planted them early.

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  3. It would seem that a jury was not involved in this trial. By accounts the verdict was rendered by the judge in what is commonly called a 'bench trial'. Thus we have
    more evidence that the judiciary in America exists to rubber stamp the actions of
    the hired muscle employed by those in power. If this case did not constitute
    criminal misconduct than no such case exists.

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    1. I read that the accused requested a bench trial. Coincidence?

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